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The Washington critic., 1887-08-27
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MARTYRS COMMERCIAL COLLEGE,
313 SIXTH STREET N. W.,
Near City Postonice.

Near City Postolice.
Fall opening Sept 10. Catalogues free on
application at College office, on hrst floor,
from a. m. to y. M or by mail.
II. q. MARTYN, President.
OK URNER, A. VI. q. E., Principal.
The Washington critic., 1887-08-27
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ITO ART STUDENTS AND PARENTS.
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twelve medals and studied fifteen years in
Europe with the most celebrated artists.
Particular attention to sketuhng from ma,
tuIe. Children Saturday. $40 per ye1r.
THE COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY,
i WAsniNGTOS CITY, ID. C.
The Preparatory School begins Sept. ~.
The Columbian College begins Sept, 10.
The Medical School begins Oct. 3.
The Corcornn Scientific school begins oct. 3.
The Law School begins oct 5.
For catalogues or other information,
Address JAMES c. WELLtNG,
President.
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JhicngO Markets.
The following summary is by B. X. Plain
& Co., st. Cloud Bulldog, Ninth & f
streets.
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a3o 7th ST., Warrington, ID O'I
Gives special attention TO all Real Estate
Transactions and the Plncing OF Fire IIsur'
ance in Reliable Companies,
The Washington critic., 1887-08-27

Grand Single Number Drawing at
the Academy OF Music, New Orleans, TUES
DAY, StutumbCT -, 1851.
, 1887-08-19
give Them "A chance (.

That is to say, your lungs. Also all
your breathing machinery. Very wonder
full machinery it is. Not only the larger
air passages, but the thousands of little
tubes and cavities leading from them.
When these are clogged and chokod
with matter which ought not to be there,
vour lungs cannnt do half their work.
\ nd what they do, they cannot do well
Call it cold, cough, Group. pneumonia,
catarrh, consumption, or any OF the fam
lily of throat and nose and head and lung
Instructions. all are bad. All ought to
be got md OF. There is Just one sure way
to get rid of them. That is to take
Boschee's German Syrup, which any
druggist will sell you at IS cents a bottle.
Even if everything else has failed you
yon may depend upon this for certain
, 1887-08-19
Education of Russian Women.

Statistics nave just been issued as to
the number of women who nave studied
at Russian universities in 1886. The total
number of female students amounted to
no, and of these 243 studied philology
and 536 different branches of m1the-
MATES; 587 belonged to the Greek church
and 1870 were Jews; 74S were unmarried
and 81 married; 437 of the ladies were
the daughters of noblemen, officers, or
government officials; 80 were daughters
of Russian priests, 1876 of merchants, III
of private citizens, 10 of peasants, a of
soldiers, and 2 were foreigners. That
the zeal for female education in Russia is
still us great as ever is shown not only by
the above figures, but also by the fact
that a Warsaw lady has recently given
$4,000 roubles for a high school for
women to be built at Warsaw.-Pall Mall
GaZptta
, 1887-08-19
HAvANA,s BATHING RESORT.
Pits for the Publio-A Stroll Along tn,
Beach-The Breakers.

Pits for the Pubnc-A Stroll Along the
Breakers.
At last you reach the baths. Here, too,
Is a glorieta, and beyond this are the most
peculiar facilities for bathing that l re-
member to have seen. A long, high reef
has been cut and followed into a dozen
separate wells just where the surf tum-
bles against the shore. These cavities are
twelve or fourteen feet square and six or
eight feet deep; in each there is a hole or
window opening toward the sea, and as
large as the body of a man. Through this
the water finds entrance, standing, per-
haps, four feet above the floor. Awooden
roof stretches over all these pits, each Of
which is fenced of separately above the
water, and thus converted into an excel
lent bathing room, open toward the sea.
There is a wooden floor at the entrance,
with sufficient furniture, md a flight OF
steps cut into the rock, by which you de-
scend to the bath. The sea flows In and
out necessarily through the aperture, the
bottom of the pit is rough and the sides
rugged; the crabs are crawling in your
huge tub, and the seaweed comes in at
the window, but the whole effect is
unique and delightful. You can look over
the rocky wall to the ocean beyond, and
the breeze is constant and unobstructed,
for the boarding between the rooms
reaches only half way to the roof, which
is fifteen feet above the water. In very
high seas the tide submerges the baths,
and sometimes in a storm the whole
wooden structure is swept or blown away.
Som of the pits are large enough for
half a dozen bathers, and these are called
public but the private ones can be taken
by a party of two or three or by a single
person. To rise at 8 or 8 and reach the
bath almost before the sun, and spend
half IN hour in the Atlantic in one of
these strange tropical ~crannies, half natu-
raj, half artificial, is the most delightful
preparation for a Cuban day in July that
can be conceived.
After this / sometimes strolled along
the beach, which is cool at this early hour,
and looked out on the great sweep of the
sea that always seems bluer there han
anywhere else in the world, and calmer
than any ocean surf that 1 have known.
The waves were less boisterous, the line
of breakers never very high unless in alb
solute storm, while the water itself,
though stimulating and exhilarating in
sensation, was softer than other sea water,
and left none of that singing and some
times disagreeable effect upon the skin
that ocean water often produces. Then L
found my way back to my hotel, as differ
ent a summer resort as possible from
those at Newport or Long Branch, or
Dieppe or Scarborough, or at any other
seaside place on either continent.-Adam
Badeau's Letter.
, 1887-08-19
An Almost Human Monkey.

MassiCa was n female c~himpanzee, kept
in the Dresden geological gardens. She
was remarkable, not only in her habits,
but i'll her disposition. At N mo-
mcut she would sit still, with a brood
ing air. occasionally darting a misChievous
glance az the spectators; at another, she
took pleasure in feats Of strength, or
roamed about in her spacious Enclosure,
like an angry beast Of prey.
MassiCa was frequently u~ngovernable.
She would obey no one but the director
of the garden. Sometimes when she was
in a good humor she would sit upon his
knee, and put her muscular arms about
his neck, with a caressing gesture; but,
in spite of this occasional c~lemency. he
was never safe from her roguish tricks.
She knew how to use a gimlet, wiring
out wet clothes, and put a handkerchief
to its Legitimate use. If allowed to do 50,
she would draw off the keepers boots,
scramble with them TO some place out OF
reach, and then throw them at his head.
Once she succeeded in opening the lock
of her cage, and, having done 50, stole
the key. It was kept hanging on the
wall outside, and Massica, observing it,
took it down, hid it in her armpit, and
Crept quietly back to her cage. When
occasion again served her purpose she
easily opened the lock with her key and
walked out.
She died of consumption. Just before
her death she put her arm about the
directors neck, looked at him placidly,
kissed him three times, stretched out her
hands to him and died.-Youth's Com
paniOn.
, 1887-08-19

1t has long been known that in some
specimens of bamboo a round stone is
found at the joints of the cane. This is
called 'tabasheer, " and is supposed to be
deposited from the s%ilicious juices of the
cane. Another curiosity of this sort is
the '~'cocoanut stone" found in the
endosperm of the cocoanut in Java and
other East India islands. 1t is, accord
ing to DIR. Kimmins, a pure carbonate of
lime, and the shape of the stone is some
times round, sometimes pear shaped,
while the appearance is that of a white
pearl without much luster. Some of the
stones are as large as cherries, and as
hard as feldspar or opal. They are very
rarely found, and are regarded as precious
stones by Orientals, and charms against
disease or evil spirits by the natives.
Stones of the kind are also found in the
pomegranate and other East India fruits.
Apatite has also been discovered in the
midst Of teak wood.-Engineering.
, 1887-08-19

The Madrid opera house is one of the
finest in the world, and the performance is
nearly always good. Only the best sing
ing will be tolerated by a Madrid audience,
a fact of which 1 saw an illustration that
was almost tragic. A young American
had come there much heralded, and under
an engagement for six nights. She had
already sung one night before 1 heard her,
and had failed to please. For this evening
another prima donna had been announced,
but she had been taken ill, and the Ameri-
can girl Unexpectedly appeared in her
stead. The rest of the company was rs
good as could be desired, and met with a
hearty welcome. When the American
sang, she was quietly disregarded, save
when, now and then, n distinct hiss would
come from some of the least fashionable
portions of the house.
How 1 pitied her as 1 saw her stand
there, with all those hostile eyes looking
her over, all that sea of sCornful faces
turned toward herl How could she go
onP But not to do so would have been to
forfeit her engagement and lose all that
was her due. Upheld by l know not
what sense of stern necessity, she steadily
sang her part through. When a scene
was ~applauded she stood aside, with her
pale face and her set lips, knowing that
no share in the applause was for her.
Not one expression of Spanish approval
or encouragement sustained her from be-
ginning to end. 1 felt that no gladiator
fighting in an arena ever displayed n more
dauntless courage.-Louise Chandler
MOulton in The Cosmopolitan.
, 1887-08-19
Extracting the publIe's Nickel.

The nickel demanding weighing or gift
or mechanical wonder machines multiply
in the bar rooms and public places until ii
would seem that inventive ingenuity to
extract the nickel from the curious public
had been exhausted. The mechanical
wonders are costly toys, requiring each
the outlay of several hundred dollars, and
the machines are taken from one place to
another as soon as the novelty ceases to
attract. They are generally owned by the
enterprising mechanic who constructs
them, and yield him a handsome profit
after the first cost has been paid. The
other machines are manufactured by the
wholesale, and are owned by corporations.
At first the proprietors of the places
where they are exhibited considered then
attractions and granted permission for
their exhibition, but since they have
proved so remunerative n percentage OF
the receipts is demanded for the right OF
exhibition.-New York Times.
, 1887-08-19

West Point riding deserves a chapter
by itself, for it would be Il revelation to
the city schools. Bareback, with crossed
stirrups, with every kin of n horse except
an cas- one, the boys have to rough it for
n year or more before they get a foot rest.
The big, gloomy riding hall has its agile
tenants day after day during the fall and
winter months, and few indeed are the
boys who are not time and again rolled in
the tan bark or pitched headlong over the
hurdles.
n cat with its reputed plurality of lives
would be dead II dozen times over in
taking half the chances those laughing
youngsters will eagerly seek in their three
years Mt cavalry and light artillery drill,
but it seems impossible to kill a cadet,
and just rs hard to scare one. More reck-
less, daring, graceful riding one need
never look to see thar among the seniors
when they come before the board of visitors
in jane; and all through the spring,
varied by occasional scouts and recon-
noissanccs over the rough mountain roads,
the drills Of the cavalry battalion on the
plain are sights that one can never tire of
watching; while after an hours running
at the heads, :" or leaping hurdles bare
back, picking up handkerchief from the
ground, or mounting and dismOunting Mt
n Eallop, the boys come back from the
hall covered with glory and tan bark,
but with famous appetites and few
bruises.-Charles King, U. S. A, in Har-
per's Magazine.
, 1887-08-19

was in a dentists Office up town the
other day where a woman was seated in
the chair, when 1 noticed n flashing light
from the point of one of her front teeth
which struck me as being the reflected
rays from a diamond. | said as much to
the dentist when he came to speak with
me, and he astonished me by replying:
That is just what it is. 1t is frequently
the case hat we have ladies come
here whose front teeth are so bad
ly injured that filling them with
gold produces a disagreeable APP
pearance. By putting in a small diamond
with a gold setting the Disagreement is
less noticeable. l had a remarkable case
not long since. y wealthy California
gentleman brought to me his daughter to
have her teeth examined. One of her
upper front teeth had the peculiar forma-
ton Of a pearl. The pearl was not COM
plete, but was sufficiently defined and dis
tinct SO that there could be no mistake
about it. The companion tooth was
badly decayed, and her father desired to
have n diamond set in it. The young lady
is in New York at the present time, but is
soon going abroad to finish her educa-
ton. New York Tribune.
, 1887-08-19

There is a man in the Sea Beach Palace
exposition on Coney Island who works
out the most delicate articles with a band
saw nineteen feet long and revolving at
the rate of over n mile n minute. Upon
this immense machine the skilled operator
in my presence sawed out four chairs, all
complete with legs and backs, but so
small that the fOur were placed on the end
of n lead pencil at one time. Then a
dozen knives and forks of the most dimin-
utivc size were made ahd placed around
the lead pencil. 50 small were they that
although the entire dozen were placed
round the pencil not one of them touched
the other. Then the operator trimmed
his finger nails on the huge saw as clev-
erly and as easily rs one could do it with
a penknife.
Wetting his thumb, he pressed the ball
of it into some sawdust and then sawed
the sawdust off the thumb without
scratching the skin, yet n single nervous
twitch Of the arm would have cost him a
hand. All sorts of curious puzzles are
turned out with astonishing rapidity from
all sorts of misshapen blocks of wood.
Even articles of clothing, as thin and tlex-
ible as cloth, are worked out by this ma
giCian from little pieces of wood with his
big saw. The cap he works in was sawed
ont of over 900 pieces of wood, no two
of which are the same size or shape
Brooklyn Eagle Rambler"
, 1887-08-19

Every day some of the prisoners are al
lowed to see their friends in the reception
room, of which State Detective Jackson
has charge. 1t is here that some of the
most pathetic scenes are witnessed.
While the reporter was sitting there an
old Irish woman, her face covered with
wrinkles, tottered into the room. She
was accompanied by a young woman ar
rying a baby, while a little child walked
by her side. They seated themselves on
one of the benches, and soon a tall fellow
entered and approaching the old woman
he stopped over and kissed her. She partly
arose from her seat, and putting her ian
on the mans shoulder, said, brokenly,
"Ah, me boyl" Then she began to cry,
and rolling her handkerchief into a bali
mopped her eyes with it from time to
time. The man turned to the younger
woman, who was his sister, and Indifferent
to his mothers sorrow began laughing and
talking and playing with the children.
He took the baby in his arms and kissed
it while it crowed over him and poked its
little fingers into his eyes.
On another bench in one corner sat a
plump looking Irish girl with a pretty
face. She was not alone long, for soon a
convict peered sheepishly through the
doorway, and, recognizing her, advanced
awkwardly to her side. There was a re-
sounding kiss; and the two sat down and
talked c~heerfully together. There was
not a vestige of sorrow between them,
notwithstanding they were both very
young and only married a short time be-
fore their misfortune overlook them.
There is no time to indulge in sorrow in a
meeting of thirty minutes duration once
in two months. They nave only time to
talk N hope, and so they talked. Yet
on the same bench there sat a group
which ordinarily should be beyond a
thought of hope. There were two women,
the oldest the mother of two convicts, the
youngest the wife of one. Both the young
men appeared together and smilingly and
affectionately received the greetings that
awaited them. They were the two Ka-
bout brothers, who were some time ago
convicted of arson and sentenced to con-
finement in the state prison for life. The
oldest is only 81 and the youngest 25, and
both have nothing before them but a long
waste of years. Yet the thirty minutes
allowed was spent in the most cheerful
conversation, and the eyes of all cleaned
happily when the moment for the parting
kiss arrived.-New York Tribune.
, 1887-08-19

While the queen has extended her elem
enCy to deserters and blackguards in order
TO mark her jubilee, the well behaved sol,
der will only remember that event by
extra hard work, poorer rations and al
enforced contribution. On Jubilee Day,
for instance, there was n grand review on
Southsea Common. The troops were be.
tween four and five hours in the blazing
sun and OIL returning to the barracks the
mounted men spent the afternoon in the
stables. All the troops in garrison instead
of enjoying special allowances were served
with timed preserved or ''bully'' beef,
which is not particularly palatable, and in
the same way the queens birthday after
a trying review was signalzed. This
treatment of the good and steady men
presents a striking contrast to the queens
pardon and free kit to tho worthless fel,
lows who desert from one regiment to an,
other, and it has caused much bad feeling
among the troops.-Pall Mall Gazette.
, 1887-08-19

When a man is asked to act as a pail
bearer at a funeral, he ought to seek out
the other pail bearers before they assume
their Grape and their mournful air, and
practice the lockstep with them for an
hour or so, or at least until he can be
confident that they are going to keep step
when they lift the coffin and start of
with it. l was a pail bearer recently,
and my arms and knees pain me now
with the recollection. When a party of
pail bearers take up a coffin and step out
Of time, the weight ZONES principally
upon the two end bearers, and it is no
easy thing for two men to sustain by the
sharp handles of a coffin the weight of
the casket itself and the corpse within
Globe Democrat.
, 1887-08-19

The universal use and n]daptability OF
the French title of courtesy, MADAME"
common also to Germans, and the Italian
~"SignOra,' with their respective diminu-
tives, "Mademoiselle,n ''Fraulein' and
~"Signorina, " mark n distinction, the ub-
scnCe OF n conversational equivalent to
which is, in our country, socially speak,
ing, most ~inconvenicnt. Without an cX.
net knowledge of n PERSONS name the
most polite of Englishmen is left without
any elegant means of avoiding what Dor
ders on rudeness. In n foreign tongue it
is possible to converse any length of time
with n nameless Madame or even
''Mam'zelle, " or to refer to her existence
without any awkwardness, while these
simple forms of address will be further
ound to cover all difficulties in determin-
ing the often veXed questions of rank and
title. Our language is unquestionably
rich in literary excellence, but. it must be
admitted it is somewhat deficient in the
delicate amenities of social intercourse
All the Year Round.
, 1887-08-19
Glad.tone md the Reporter.

In the election, when Mr.. Gladstone
sought to become the member for South
Lancashire, he was speaking at St.
Hcleus. He had his notes in his hat. A
well known Lancashire reporter was be
low, with his watch placed before him on
the table. Mr.. Gladstone, in his fervor,
knocked over hat and notes; they fell with
n crash on the reporters watch, which
launched itself upon the floor. a finer
tablcauX han the reporter picking up his
damaged watch, Mr.. Gladstone receiving
his hat md notes, and a great Lancashire
crowd cheering and laughing, never was
s~een.-London journalist.
, 1887-08-19

a large audience has the advantage of
enthusiasm; a small audience has the adj
vantage of impressibility. A large au-
dience gives more to the speaker. Hence
it is that, while the winter gatherings in
church or Sunday school are more attrac-
tive, the midsummer groups in the same
fields are more receptive. The nearer n
congregation comes to being tho one
speaker to the one nearer the larger the
hope of apersonal message being received
as personal by him who listens to it
Philadelphia Sunday School Times.
, 1887-08-19

Typhoid Fever has broken out here
again, but whenever Darbys Prophylactic
Fluid has been freely used there has been
no fever. M. B. Lancaster. P. M, Ed.
Central Ai1bumidn. THE Fluid is not
merely a deodOrizer, but "a disinfectant-
a destroyer of the disease germs in an at.
mosphere which cannot be breathed with
out danger. New York Erening Post
, 1887-08-19

A recent analysis of a popular hair
''renewer'' shows that it was made of
sixty grains of sugar of lead, sixty grains
of sulphur, a little glycerine and water,
with a drop or two of perfume. The sui
phur gradually combines with the lead,
forming a brown or black sulphide of
lead, which slowly darkens the hair-slow
in action that the purchaser may persist
in its use. Cost three and a half cents per
bottle; retail price, $1.-Chicago Times.
, 1887-08-19

Microscopic air and liquid bubbles exist
in many crystals of minerals, no less than
1000, 900 having been estimated to have
a place in a cube of quartz one-twenty-
fifth Of an inch square.-Arkansaw Trav-
eler.
, 1887-08-19

Heaven is just on the other sid of
where a fellow has done his level best.
The man who thinks he's safe and lies
back on his oars loses heaven right there.
Rev. Sam Jones.
, 1887-08-19
JOYS.

Joys have three stages, Hoping, Having end :
The hands of Hope are empty and the laa
Having is sad;
For the joy we take in the taking dies, ami
joy We Had is its ghost,
And which is better, the joy unknown or the
we have clasped and lostg
John Boyle O'Reilly.
, 1887-08-19

The largest stock OF hno brandies, old
WHISTLES, choice hquettrs and superfine
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
-trnntn
, 1887-08-19

Physician Ito anxious wife)-We have
held n consultation, madam, about your
husbands case; he is n very sick man, and
it might be well to send for n minister, /
think.
Anxious Wife-Wm one b. enough,
doctor, or would you advise a consulta-
ton of ministers?-Life.
, 1887-08-19

Cheyenne Transfer company-From
I'VE pounds per day to a carload at = time
Reasonable reductions to large consumers
, 1887-08-19

All the real wits and humorists are a
sedate people; their wit and humor is
worked out soberly, with line and plum
met.-Uncle Esck.
, 1887-08-19

Mans thought lasts no longer thar
mans deed.-Christian Reid.
, 1887-08-19

MA and reliable Medicines are the best
ON todepend upon. Acler's Blood Ell
ixir has been prescribed for years for all i'm
p~uritieso of the Blood. In every form of Scrof-
ulous, Syphilitic or Mercurial diseases, it is
invaluable. For Rheumatism, has no equal.
DR.. w. N. Hunt.
, 1887-08-19

NON>S trihe with any Throat or
~ Lung Disease. If you have
a Cough or Cold, or the children arc
threatened with Group or Whooping Cough.
use Acker's English Remedy and proven
further trouble. 1t is n positive clrp
and NC guarantee it. Price 10 and 5Or
DR.. w. n. Hunt.
, 1887-08-19
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